With Only Five Leaves Left

With Only Five Leaves Left

 

With only five leaves left

and at

38 degrees, they all said

birds

would be sure to fall from

the skies

and the trees throughout

summer ..

Like stones, they all said

but boy did

they get it ever so wrong ..

Yet still

Nick Drake’s tears kept falling

until that is

we had, just three leaves left

and not a

single match, or light between

the two of us ..